What's the difference between the different human factions?  Is it just flavor text?

Yeah. The humans are the starter race that are all the same.

It's a great show, but I would stop after the fourth episode of the third season (Do not stop before those four episodes though, they may be the best of the entire series). Make up your own ending as if the show was cancelled (it's a good spot). The series then falls off a massive cliff. No one has ever taken this advice, but everyone who I've given it to tells me after that they wish they did .

You've got PM.

Ok guys, I need some quick advise:

I'm leaving on a trip tomorrow that will involve about 14 hours driving over the course of the next week. Luckily, I'm not doing any driving. And since it's always nice to be anti-social in a car, I'm looking for an iPhone game recommendation for this trip. Preferably the game will be something that will keep my interest for at least a good part of those 14 hours (bonus if longer). Additional bonus if it doesn't drain the battery within two hours (I have the new iPod Touch and so far the battery has been pretty good but that means it can't rely on WiFi). I generally prefer strategy games and roleplaying games, so anything in that genre will work well. I already have King of Dragon's Pass and Dragon Island Blue (and have played them out more or less). Games that aren't free are fine. Thanks.

Final Fantasy Tactics is half price right now. Great if you've never played it, still pretty good even if you have. The Ascension card game is quite good as well and I've probably thrown away a couple dozen hours playing it.

Coolstuff Inc, Miniature Market and Boards and Bits are my mainstays. Of those, I'd say CSI generally has the worst prices, but the best selection. MM and B&B vary back and forth pricewise.

It didn't get much media coverage, but there was a fairly big ruckus at the RNC when Paul's delegates from Maine got unseated so that he couldn't get nominated from the floor. I'm guessing that's what she's protesting.

I love my Air. Great for anything except modern gaming and video editing.

What language(s)?

Wow the Niners got fucked again in scheduling.  Open AT GB, then home against DET, then in consecutive weeks AT MIN and AT NYJ.

http://www.nfl.com/schedules/2012/REG1

Oh yeah, totally fucked. I mean, the second seed in the NFC has to play two playoff teams in their first four games. And their strength of schedule is #24. Boo fucking hoo.

Would someone who doesn't like horror movies like it? I love me some Whedon, but don't watch horror flicks due to not digging gore, and hating that thing they do when things get quiet and then they blast sound at you so you're scared.

It's both single and multi. The AI has improved quite a bit in the last couple builds and can put up a fight.

It's not anything like Settlers of Catan beyond visual appearance. Settlers is a trading/negotiation game. NWC is an area control game. It's quality and you can't beat free!

The bang part is completely subjective. Bang is user experience. The buck part is easy. Your cost per year of owning the item is (Initial cost - Resale value)/(Years owned). I would posit that the buck part of the equation is far less of a discrepancy than you're making it out to be due to the fact that a) the resale value of the Mac is much higher and b) Macs are better built than all but the most expensive Windows laptops, so will last longer.

And always keep in mind it's very easy to set up a dual boot to Windows if you need it for some reason.

That goes both ways - you could also dual-boot or run a VM of a Hackintosh.

This is not equivalent. I have a hackintosh desktop, and it was a pain in the ass to setup. It's also a pain to maintain. It's even harder on a laptop to get it working correctly. Installing Bootcamp is trivial.

Homebrew is essential for installing utilities at the command line. You can do things like "brew install git" and it will install git and all of the needed dependencies.

Donald X. Vaccarino does not endorse this app and explicitly says it violates his rule for fan made versions not to use original art. Their statement that it is officially endorsed is a flat out lie.

http://boardgamegeek.com/article/8292118#8292118

The next book and possible finale to the Heroes Die series. If you like gritty, fast-paced, fantasy/sci-fi dystopias, definitely check out Heroes Die.

Who wouldn't rather face the Giants than the Saints? 

Personally I think Wesley has the best character arc in the entire Buffyverse.

No way, it will be the Broncos. John Fox will be the first coach in history to earn the first pick in two consecutive drafts with two different teams.

The Eagles secondary just got SCARY.

There's also pygame, which is a python wrapper around SDL, a multiplatform API that has helped many an Indie developer. I prototype a lot of my games in pygame before deciding if I want to take them to a beefier platform. If you're just looking to learn programming, and do simple game development, I'd highly recommend it. VB is the wrong direction. VB is made for interfacing with the Microsoft's ecosystem and making generic Windows apps.  But if you're having fun, it's all good.

I've been a software engineer for over a decade. I used to say scripting engines were for amateurs, which was kind of true, but things have changed. If you want to learn to be a software engineer, I'd say to start with C, because you won't be given anything high level, and you'll have to learn how everything works before moving on to a richer language like C++ or Java. If you want to learn to program, there is no cleaner language than python. As a bonus, a lot of game engines do their scripting using python, so you'll be able to do mods as well.

Price?

How about sending help to people in THIS country who need it, so many of them, before we send help to Japan...

I'm sorry, but we've done more for them in the last 36 hours then we did for New Orleans in WEEKS.

Especially in these times when money is so short...help our own FIRST.

Maybe you can start up another thread getting people to send money to the Confederacy. This thread is about Japan.

iTunes Home Sharing is not wireless sync. It will just make your iOS device show up in iTunes wirelessly like other computers do, so you can listen to music and watch video from your device without having to plug it in.

Oh, sweet. Thanks!

This is the full, shrink-wrapped, retail version. It goes for $700 retail, and ~$550 on eBay. I'm willing to sell it here for $500 shipped. I have +17 trading feedback, and will ship priority mail with insurance. If you don't think the price is fair, make me an offer, you never know!

edit: I had +16 in the old feedback system, but it didn't get transferred over to the new one. The new one only shows +1.

Because I love you Niners fans so very, very much:

"I've been studying Alex Smith and watching him," Harbaugh said. ... "And I believe that Alex Smith can be a winning quarterback in the National Football League. I'm excited to work with him, get to know him."

Read more: http://www.fannation.com/truth_and_rumors/nfl?page=2#ixzz1CkhKVKoP

I hope this comes to the UK soon.  It only took about five years for The Wire to come over so I'm hopeful!

Also, HBO, when you send it over here please sell it to the BBC, so I don't have to suffer through an advert break every five minutes.  Ta.

It's already been announced in the UK:

http://winter-is-coming.net/2010/07/sky-purchases-rights-to-air-hbo-in-uk/

[Acquire]

One more thing.

I'd say one of the best intro to boardgaming games is Acquire.  If you read the description, it sounds like the most boring game on Earth.  In fact, it sat on my shelf for two years before I played it because it just didn't sound appealing.  Since then, it is one of our most played games, and I've played it with dozens of n00bs including my Mom.  Everyone to a man has loved it and asks about playing it when they come over.  It has been a major gateway to some of the more complex Euro style games.

Dominion's fantasy theme is very light with the exception of the Alchemy expansion.  The theme pretty much fades away once you start playing and are just trying to figure out what the cards do and how they can work together.  I'd say get the original game and then if that catches on, you can start to dig into the expansions.

Also, Intrigue does not support 6 out of the box.  You need either the original, or another set of Intrigue in order to play 6 or two tables of 4.

Is The Witcher more like NWN or Diablo?

I still can't believe Mark Ruffalo's going to play Banner/Hulk. I like him, I just never saw him wanting to do super hero stuff, not in a million years.

Just look at the picture.  Clearly the guy's got a coke habit to support.

They just refreshed the Macbook Pro.  The article your'e referencing is talking about the Mac Pro, which is a workstation.

YGPM re: ME2.

YGPM.

YGPM

[El-Producto]

+1 to El-Producto for PSP Phat loot.

YGPM

YGPM.  I'm assuming this has Leopard on it?